I wrote this yesterday at the AWhere Blog: Geo-Analytics Transforms CA Politics.  It’s a story told in ever-increasing zoom about how the Proposition 8 opponents Google Mapped the pro-Prop8 donors.  An interesting and intense demonstration of how location intelligence and mapping creates actionable insight.

Final Screen Shot: Street View, Anyone?

Apologies for the deafening silence over here.  Busy on a research project, a web-development project (that’s almost done) and firming up my retainer clients for 2009.  Living the “Be The Change” movement of Obama and beyond, and will have a lot to talk about in another few weeks, so expect this space to heat back [...]

Wow.  There have been many “I never thought I would read about that” moments this year, but to read an article on the BBC about the concept that banks could offer negative interest makes me wonder if the apocalypse really is upon us.  Also called demurrage, negative interest is a carrying charge, and one that [...]

Just posted over at the Business Catapult Blog:
It’s no secret that IPOs have been at a near-standstill for the past few years.  In addition to the growing financial crisis and general gloom, the unintended consequences of the demands for more financial regulation in the wake of Enron, WorldCom and other related advantage-taking in the 90s [...]